Welcome

Welcome to The Clinical Pastoral Education Learning Center. We offer CPE via local
and distance learning modalities to clergy and laypersons. Our base of operation
is First Congregational Church in Tacoma, Washington – a church whose history dates
back to 1874 and whose mission for many years has been to extend religious education
beyond its doors into the community (www.TacomaFCC.org). First Congregational Church
is currently a member of the National Association of Congregational Christian Churches
(www.NACCC.org).

In this age of online training and education, we are able to accept applications
to our CPE program from persons who live in the Tacoma-Seattle area and far beyond.
Currently, we have satellite CPE learning centers in Reno Nevada and Caroline, Alberta
in Canada.

The Clinical Pastoral Education Learning Center offers two or three units of CPE
per year to persons who participate online and in person.

The Academy of Holistic Theology and Spirituality was founded in 2015 and is seeking
religious exemption by the state of Washington to offer degree programs in religion
and theology. The Spiritual Sanctuary was founded in 2013 and it offers a worship
and ministry base at First Congregational Church to several local churches from a
wide array of denominational backgrounds.

Accreditation

The Clinical Pastoral Education Learning Center is provisionally accredited to offer
programs in CPE by the Center for Spiritual Care & Pastoral Formation (CSCPF) which
has been in existence since 1995. CSCPF (www.cscpf.org) is “a community which is
working every day in the service of Spirit to help, heal and transform individual
and global wounds.”